Tooltips frequently appear below menus

[Alexander Jones]

Open the "Applications" menu
Highlight "Accessories"
Wait for tooltip to appear
Highlight "Games", underneath

Notice that the tooltip appears immediately, but the menu appears a short while later. The menu obscures the tooltip.

This does not always happen the first time, try moving backwards and forwards between items and it will eventually happen.

Tooltips should have the highest Z order than any other window class.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug 26 20:53:37 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: libgtk2.0-0 2.11.6-1ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: gtk+2.0
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-10-generic #1 SMP Wed Aug 22 08:11:52 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I can repeat that here (gutsy tribe 5ish x86-64)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470908

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

I just tried to repeat this on Hardy and I can't - however I think this is because it has been avoided rather than fixed.

There don't seem to be any tooltips on the top level menus that have children for me anymore hence I can't trigger this.
So it might still be valid.